Improvement in cooking-stoves



W. H. WHITEHEAD.

Cooking Stove.

No. 87,127. Patented Feb. 23, 1869.

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WILLIAM H. WHITEHEAD, OF CHIC-AGO, ILLINOIS. Letters Patent No. 87,127, dated Febrero/ry 23, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN COOKING-STQVES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the sama.

To all whom it may concern:

-Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. WHITEHEAD, of the city of Ohicago, in the State of Illinois, have in.- vented certain new and useful Improvements in Cooking-Stoves; and I do declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure l represents a top view of an extension-top stove.

Figure 2, a perspective of the same, convertedinto a five-hole stove with my device.

Figure 3, a detail of plate D. hhgure 4, a perspective, showing the bottom of the s e l My invention relates to that class of cooking-stoves which have an extended top for the purpose of receiv-` ing a water-reservoir, with a pit beneath such rever; voir for the passage of smoke. 1

It is customary to attach a tin heater to the back of such stoves and beneath the pit. The water-reservoir and the tin heater both .add materially to the cost of a stove, and hitherto no way has been devised for dispensing with the reservoir, except by simply placing a cover over the opening designed for it.

The object of vmy invention is to provide for dispensing With the Water-reservoir in this class o'f stoves, and at the same time make use of the opening over which the reservoir is placed; and also to provide a shelf, attached to the back of cooking-stoves, to be used for warming-purposes.

To enable others skilled in the art rto make and use my invention, I proceed to describe its construction and operation.

A represents the top plate of an extension-top stove.

B is the opening, over or into which the water-reservoir is placed.

C is the pit, beneath the extension, through which the smoke passes, escaping at a.

Parties purchasing cooking-stoves are frequently unwilling to pay the cost of a Water-reservoir, and yet desire greater facilities for cooking and-'heatingthan are furnished by four holes.

I accommodate such persons by removing the reservoir, and providing a plate, D, of peculiar construction, fitting into the opening B.

This plate D has an opening, E, to receive the furniture usually used with the stove.

This opening E is raised above the surface of the plate D, by means` ofthe flange b, cast upon and with the plate D, the objects of which are to prevent the kettle, which may be placed in this hole E, from interfering with the use of the damper, (not seen,) operated by the rod c, and to keep the kettle from going so far into the pit U as to interfere with the passage of the smoke.

If the plate D were so constructed, that a kettle placed in the hole E extended as far below the plate as when placed in the other holes, the damper could not be turned either way without hitting the kettle,

a tin heater, the latter being expensive and liable to become unfit-for use.

The shelf may conveniently be made of cast-iron, having a hook, d, at each end, and a supporting-brace, e, on'the under side. l

In casting the stove-plates designed to be used with the shelf, pins fare provided, and small projections on the back plate, marked g. l

The shelf is attached to the stove, and held in position by means of the hooks d, and pins f, and projections g, and supporting-brace e..

One or more shelves may be used with each stove. The shelf may be attached to any cooking-stove, but will not probably be much used except upon extension'- top stoves. With such stoves the shelf will be found very useful, articles placed thereon receiving heat both from the back of the stove and the bottom of the pit G. The shelf can be attached to the stove in yarious ways.

Having thus fully described my invention,

What I claim asnew, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows:

l. 'i he plate D, when provided with the ange b and opening E, in combination with the extension-top A and pit C of a cooking-stove, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

2. rIhe shelf F, in combination with a cooking-stove, f when attached thereto, and constructedsubstantially as and for the purposes specified.

y WM. H. WHITEHEAD.

Witnesses:

LEWIS UMLAUF, E. A. WEST. 

